Canon filed a total of 2,329 US patents in 2024, ranking the company ninth in the number of patents registered in the United ...

This metric reflects the number of patents by state granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office annually. States are ranked on the average number of patents granted per million residents.

U.S.-based inventors filed the greatest number of PCT patent applications in 2018, trailed closely by China, which is expected to surpass the U.S. within the next two years on current trends.

Canon ranked ninth in the number of patents registered in the U.S., placing it in the world's top 10 for 41 consecutive years ...